Yes gem, it will cook twice as fast! It's perfect logic! *nod nod*

Yeah, What ever could go wrong?

This reminds me of the time when I was about 4 and I tried too make a "Lemon" pie, yet I just put Lemonade and some ice into one of the pie thingies and almost burned our house down.

I did something very similar when I was about 9 I got up really early as i wanted to make gingerbread for my mum on mothers day. I added lots of ingredients i thought would make gngerbread but it was too thick so i added water which made it too runny so I added more ingredients which made it too thick, and it went back and forth like that for several attempts until I had used pretty much every bowl in the house to put all the excess goop in. The kitchen was dripping with the stuff, it was all over the surfaces all over teh floor, on walls. I tried to cook it but it was like soup. My mum woke up and came downstairs and saw her beloved kitchen destroyed. It took her all day to clean it all up and....she doesnt even like gingerbread

Yet they always say.. "It's the thought that counts.. Now go too your room."

And ironic, cause I tried too make a "Lemon" Pie on Mother's Day..

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Don't we all?

fire in the hole! duck and cover! *hides*

do a barrel roll!

Oh lord, this isn't going to end well. Just remember, when he walks in the door and sees the floor covered in yeasty dough, just put a finger up to your mouth, give him your best innocent look, and squeak, "I didn't mean to!"

LOL...I wonder if that'll work

i see the diaper waistbannd poking out of her pants hope that paul dont notice it

Never heard of the gas mark things.

Tho I can not wait to see what happens.
You are sooo good at making me want to see the next page. ^_^

How do you cook What are the settings on your oven. Gem has a duel fuel over so the top hob part is electric and the over and grill are Gas, so gas is measured in gas marks (so I think gas mark 4 is 100 degrees centigrade)

Our ovens have the actual degrees on them.
Usually in 50 or 100 degree increment marks in fahrenheit tho.
So marks does make sense. Sounds easier actually.

The combo oven sounds like it can do some nice things. I is jealous. :3

Hehe, clearly visible poof butt in panels 2 and 4.

Ack! :O That's the cardinal mistake of oven cooking! XO

Gem as an adult is VERY cute! while she looks cute as a baby, theres something very childish and feminine about adult version. Hard to put a paw to, but it fits you so well!

Hahaha~ I'm not expert chef but Last I checked, Doubling the temp when cooking may reduce cooking time.... but it could increase the odds of the food being ovr cooked or worse even... (Sorry that's the real me analyzing stuff again. I am however quite a decently skilled cook or so my friends in college say~ ^.^; despite that though I'm basicaly sorta-skilled in a bit of everything... Now that I think about it! It's been years since I last made my specialty dish.)

From a physics point of view (sorry in advance), all cooking at a higher temperature does is make the outer edges of whatever you're cooking get done faster; the inside will probably not be done by the time the outside is. Heat takes time to travel, especially through solids where there's no convection inside the food. Presumably the recipe has an oven temperature that has been determined by trial and error guided by experience, designed to make sure the outside doesn't burn before the inside gets fully cooked. It's best not to mess with that.

There ya go.

This is a very nice story that you have.

I probably would've tried to cook something twice as fast if I didn't watch cartoons as a kid. Lol.

oh god, this thing is gonna get ruined D:

Also: Gemma is SOOO cute x3 hehe <3 *huggles her tightly*

*Adjusts her glasses* As your auntie Gem, I hope you didn't get harmed in the making of this pie ^^;;. Poor squirrelly is going to get so busted by Paul when all this literally backfires

Oh dear, poor squirrel is going to blow up her kitchen. |3

My mother actually insisted I learn how to cook for myself as early as possible. I was able to make my own meals before I hit puberty.

See now if Gem wasn't an orphen then she might have had a parental figure to show her how to cook *giggles*

True true, still, you'd think most schools would at least require one course in cooking and home ec. That always bugged me about American schools really, we require that you take Algerbra despite the fact that less than ten percent of high school graduates ever use that knowledge again but we don't make sure that a graduate knows how to feed themselves without calling Pizza Hut.

ah same rookie mistakes as always. cannot wait to see what happens

its ethier goign to explode.. OR BE THA BIGGEST PIE EVA

or worse... it comes out looking perfect... but the taste.

ohhh that would be TERRIBLE she boasts about it then they eat it.. D:

Uh oh.... Twice as fast... Noooooo....

I love your expression in panel 5. So cute.. oxo

I messed up enough cooking to know whats gonna happen next. Lols

Oh .. what could possibly go wrong? ^.^''

I love the naive side of gem you put in this page, made for good chuckle

.... It's gonna be such an explosion... @3@

Let's hope not.

*gulp*
Isnt that going to far?
I hope there comes no fire :(

*hugs*

Yeah... Somehow, I don't see this working out the way she thinks it's going to XD. In fact, I sincerely doubt this is going to end well.

that's a recipe for DISASTER! XP

This comic is one of my absolute favouritest~!! -Squee-
Gem is so cute! & I really like the way you drew her in the second block! Well done Gemmy<33

And then the house lit on fire. THE END~

Sure what could possibly go wrong.

Oh nuuuuuuu!!! T_T

All personel run towards "SAFE ZONE".

well hopefully no one walks behind her n sees the lil something peakin out of the bac of her pants

Oh dear, this isn't going to go well... ^.^

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Mmm...What's that I smell cooking? DISASTER!

ive done that once and it DID work.

You know how this is going to end, don't you? http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00017.htm

*slaps my forehead* Self-rising flour already has baking powder added to it, which of course is a balanced combination of baking soda and tartaric acid, which when wet gives off CO2, good for baked-goods, not good for streak pie.

And DOUBLING the heat is a big no-no as well. No matter how high you crank up the heat, food absorbs heat at a certain rate, hence why it has to be cooked at a certain temperature, so that the OUTISDE of the food gets cooked as soon as the INSIDE is done. By overdoing the temperature, the outside will get burned as soon as the inside is fully cooked (too LOW in temp, the outside will be done but the inside will be raw).

... I watch Alton Brown a lot, that's why I'm such a geek! XD

Was anyone else thinking like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA the entire time? and I knew it was going to end badly!

self rising and double the heat? chef J would roll over in his grave, and he aint even dead yet o.o'

*readies fire extinguisher*

*giggles* Uh ohs, baby logic is takin over X3

Why do I have a feeling that this may just turn into a disaster? o.o

Well the use of twice the heat will go faster but the inside will still be cold.

I'll just tell the fire department to wait in the kitchen...

Oh dear, Gemma! This is not boding well. I think maybe you should have decided what you were going to make before ordering your groceries, so you'd have all your ingredients! Umm yeah ... I guess we'll see how this turns out ^_^

This is why mommies tend to help out beginner chefs. :P

^_^ ill cook with ya Gem Chan ^_^ seems fun

Usually when someone tells me they're gona double the heat to save time I'm like this O.O

Me: Let me leave the room first, do you want me to call the fire department before or after this place goes in flames?

I think this is going end up Like Bridget Jones' cooking. Remember the blue leek soup?

Oh Gem, heat/cooking does NOT work like that. LOL. Times are not things you can cut in half and heat isn't something you double, haha.

Steak volcano anyone???

still baby logic with cooking huh